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I used to believe that french fries were stuffed with mashed potatoes... but I could never figure out how they got in there.
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I used to think that if I mixed my ice cream around until it was liquid and then baked it, it would turn into a cake.
At a diner when the waiter would say "soup or salad?" i thought he was saying "super salad" and i always wanted to see what a super salad was and how it was different from a regular one.
When I was little, I believed making things "out of scratch" (such as baked goods) meant you thought really hard about what you wanted and scratched the air and it would appear after awhile. I tried it a couple times too.
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i used to believe that white chocolate was made from lobsters
when i was younger i thought that the mcdonalds drive through ordering boxes actually had someone squished inside when you were putting through your order. once, when i was in the back seat and the guy asked "would you like fries with that?" i yelled out "are you ok in there? do you get to have a stretch a now and again?"
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I used to think doner kebabs were called that because the animals donated their meat for it
My mum always used to give me Vitamin C tablets in the morning, but whenever she said it to me, I thought she was saying 'Vitamin SEED tablets', and I thought the tablets were made of loads of really tiny seeds that made little vitamin trees grow inside your body.
When I was 4, my mom told me not to eat in bed because then we would get ants from the crumbs. I thought crumbs were really ant eggs and that all the food we ate was made of ant eggs.
When my cousin and I were elementary school age, she tried to convince me to stop eating McDonalds chicken nuggets because they were made out of pumpkin guts. I'm not really sure what pumpkin guts even are, but the thought of it scared me from chicken nuggets for a while.
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When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.
When I was 6, the ice cream truck was nearby and this boy and I wanted to get some. A friend told us that she didn't eat ice cream from the ice cream truck because none of the ice cream truck drivers wash their hands.
I didn't buy ice cream from the ice cream truck till I was 18.
Whenever we ate shepherd's pie for dinner my mam would tell me that there was a shepherd in every shepherd's pie so that I'd eat it, since I didn't like the dish. When I was finished but hadn't found the shepherd, my dad would say that he'd eaten it by mistake. This fooled me for years.
I used to think that hummus was made out of eggs because I heard that hummus was made out of chickpeas and I assumed thay were eggs.
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That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!
I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.
When I was a child, I used to believe that garbagemen ate the food that we threw away. If I couldn't finish my food I would say that I was "leaving it for the garbageman".
When I was three I was always too busy playing to eat, so my mom told me there was a tiger in my tummy growling to be fed, and if I didn't feed it it would run away.
I used to think tree-nuts (especially almonds) were made of wood.
My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...
I used to believe that grilled cheese was called 'girl cheese,' and only girls could eat it.